The Oriental Institute cordially invites to a talk given by Daniel Majchrowicz, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University, Chicago, entitled"Princes, Politics and Travel Literature in mid-Nineteenth Century India" in the John King Fairbank Library (Oriental Institue, Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, Praha 8) on Thursday October 4th at 12 o'clock.

Prof. Majchrowicz is currently AssistantProfessor of South Asian Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian Languages
and Cultures at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in the Histories and Cultures
of Muslim Societies in South Asia from Harvard University. His research interests include Urdu
literature, travel writing, the history of Islam in South Asia, sociolinguistics and language
politics, and comparative literature. His current project is a history of the idea of travel in
South Asia as it found expression in Urdu, Hindi, and Indo-Persian travel writing of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. This work, tentatively titled " 'The Means to Victory': Travel Writing and
Aspiration in Modern South Asia" examines how the travel account became an independent genre of
literature even as it took up an increasingly visible role in the intellectual and political life
in India and Pakistan.